The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-20
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A small piece of butter placed in starch
is said to give fire polish.
Warm salt water inhaled through thu
nostIils will cure cold and catarah.
A good cement to close the cracks In
stoves is MADE by mixing wood ashes and
salt.
Bathing the eyes when tired or weak in
warm salt water will sooth and strengthen
them.
Silver should be washed with a chamois
skin saturated will silver soap each time
after use, thus avoiding general cleaning.
1t is said by some bousekeepers that the
addition OF little vinegar to the water in
which tough meat is boiled win have the
effect of rendering it tender.
Windows and mirrors can be made to
shine without long polishing, if after be-
ing washed ia hot soapsuds they are
rubbed dry with newspaper.
The white of an egg beaten to a stiff
roth whipped up with the Juice of one
lemon and taken half hourly, will relieve
hoarseness and soreness of the chest
a cement to be used to mend rubber
boots and shoes is made by dissolving rub
Der cut fine in benziEe. This cement, il is
claimed, will firmly fasten on a rubber
patch
Rancid butter boiled in water with a
portion of charcoal, say tenth part, will
be entirely Invested of its ranciditv and
may be used for cooking purposes. although
its fine favor will not be restored for the
table.
a great convenience in the bathroom
or above the washstand is a splasher made
OF enamel cloth, with two or three pock-
etE. The edges should be bound with scar
let braid. The pockets are useful for hold
ing brushes, sponges, etc.
Keep cream apart from any strong-smelI-
ing vegetables, as nothing so readily ab-
serbs odors as milk or cream. Never put
1t into jar that has had vinegar, pickles
or any acid in ii until the jar is thoroughly
cleansed and aired. The best plan is to
have a jar especially for it, and be very
particular hat 1t is often and thoroughly
washed and aired.
To purify room set a pitcher of water
IN the. apartment, and in few hours IL
will have absorbed all the respired gases in
the room, the air of which will have be-
come puTer, but the water utterly filthy
The colder the water is the greater the Ca
pacity to contain these gases. At the or
binary temperature pail of water will
absorb q pint of carbonie acid gas and
several pints of amonia. The capacity is
nearly doubled by reducing the water to
the temperature Of ice. Hence water kept
in a room for while is unfit for use.
Some recent medical writer has well
said, in the main, as follows: The purity
of drinking-water can not be too carefully
watched. The ordinary filter only makes
matters worse. The materials through
which the water flows soon become q
breeding place for the lower orders of veg
etable life, while they strain out the courser
particles of dirt and give it a delusiVe
appearance OF purity. The unglszsd por-
celain filter is mostly free from such OBJ
iections. This takes out all organized
bodies, and when the ice is not brought
into contact with water thus filtered il
gives all the security that can be re-
ouired against taking into the system the
germs of disease. There is no security
against the products of putrsfaclon pass.
ipg through such a filter. In fact, the
only way to guard sgaipst these is to
watch he source Of water supply with I'M
cessing vigilance.